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Description: | Sherburne Hospital was founded in 1181, originally as a leprosy hospital. As the centuries passed, this disease became less prevalent and the hospital provided a home for the poor and chronically ill.
When Grimm made this sketch much of the original 12th-century chapel would have still been standing. Less than 50 years later, a fire lit in the chapel to warm the building for service the following day spread out of control because of a blocked heating flue. The wooden panelling soon became ablaze and the chapel was gutted. Five years later the interior was completely renovated. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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